Friday the thirteenth. We got through. The aircrash was a horrible, scary things. There's a photo doing the rounds on Facebook of a family where the father is clicking a self-portrait of him, wife, and adorable sons and daughter. They were apparently moving to London to start a new life. God bless them - all of them who passed on and their families. Apparently, there is one survivor.
I heard or read somewhere ages ago that because of climate change, aircrafts will have a tough time staying in the air. They will come crashing down more.
In all this, just inhaling and exhaling one slim moment at a time gets us through.
Sometimes I think it was good of the Egyptians to think so deeply of death, to see it as something to prepare for and maybe infuse with decadence. I hope that after I die, in the interim period that I wait in the ether until I find another body, I use my instructional design skills to design my curriculum more systematically than how I have set up this life.
I am really enjoying working on this technology course at present. It involves engineering and although it is a subject I had never thought I'd take to, it is quite fascinating. I have always been interested in First Principles thinking and would love to learn more of it but also now am exploring things like system logic, qualitative and quantitative reasoning, etc. And designing the curricula for this is especially beautiful. There's a concept in curriculum design called interleaving - where you take the basic framework and intersperse courses strategically with other concepts. This makes your whole course cogent and cohesive. (In higher education - especially US - it is related to the standards crosswalk. Not the same but related.) In the current project, just the potential of what can be covered and the ways in which they can be covered is so lush. You can introduce spatial decision-making with calculations or analytical interpretation with troubleshooting or growth mindset with engine design. Engineering is quite a creative farm. (I think it's more 'farm' than 'field'.)
Anyway, the book I had ordered 'Attached' arrived today. Maybe will skim through it for a while.
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